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Remove Stakes From Standardized Testing to Strengthen Education

John Thompson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Bill Tucker, Charter Schools, Chicago Schools, Value-Added Models, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Eric Hanushek, Gates Foundation, Education News

Think of how the divisiveness in education would decrease if we borrowed from the Bill of Rights and adopted a code of ethics declaring, "No stakes shall be attached to standardized tests without the consent of the student or educator."

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Public Schools Start Tracking Alumni In College

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Education News, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Education, Arne Duncan, Poverty and Education, College Completion, High School Graduation, College, College Graduation, No Child Left Behind, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Gates Foundation, Education News

From the federal government to school boards, policymakers and administrators are increasingly setting their sights on "college and career readiness" ...

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California School Board Blocks Parent Takeover Bid

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

By Troy Anderson ADELANTO, Calif., March 28 (Reuters) - A group of activist parents in this impoverished community were thwarted again...

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Why Is Miss Grundy So Sad? It's Complicated.

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Education News, Michelle Rhee, Chris Christie, Teacher Survey, No Child Left Behind, MetLife Survey, Tenure, Education Recession, Standardized Tests, Recession, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Scholastic, Teacher Sentiment, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teachers, Gates Foundation, Education News

For the last four years, Beth Sanders has taught ninth and 11th-grade social studies at Tarrant High School in Birmingham, Ala., a school where many s...

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Hostile Takeover: Parents Seek Control Of Failing School In High-Stakes U.S. Education Reform

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

(Corrects information about the founding of Parent Revolution, adds that union backed anti-trigger activist in Florida, clarifies proposed structure...

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Thinking for Ourselves: Foundations Punishing Power

Shea Howell | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Standardized Testing, Bill Gates, Detroit Education, Education Policy, Detroit Public Schools, Gates Foundation, Detroit News

Foundations wield enormous power in defining problems and determining solutions. In Detroit, as in much of the country, this is especially clear in the education of our children.

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GiftED: Private Money, Public Schools

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Gates Foundation, Private Money for Schools, Public Education Donations, Education Lobbying, Education Foundations, Video, Education News

In the case of a private foundation, they are required to pay out five percent of their assets each year. But the guidelines also stipulate that a foundation may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities.

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Thanksgiving Tweets: Nonprofits, Celebs, Everyday People Share Why They're #Thankful

Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: City Year, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Thankfulness, Girl Scouts, Angela Valdes, Thanksgiving, Alyssa Milano, What to Be Thankful For, Irene Spirit, Special Transit, Impact, Gates Foundation, Video, Impact News

Whether you're eating with your with your family or giving thanks for saved lives -- Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to be vocal about your g...

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Is Male Birth Control Coming? The Gates Foundation Thinks

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Reproduction, Male Contraception, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Future of Contraception Initiative, Male Birth Control Pill, Pill for Men, Gates Birth Control, Male Birth Control, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Bill Gates, Birth Control for Men, Gates Foundation, Women News

When some of the most innovative thinkers in contraception research meet to discuss the future of birth control this weekend, they won't just be discu...

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U.S. Education Secretary Rides 'The Magic School Bus'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Education News, Education, Arne Duncan, Corrections, Teacher Evaluation, High-Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Teachers Unions, Pittsburgh Schools, Education Reform, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, Cleveland Schools, Gates Foundation, Education News

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off his three-day Great Lakes bus tour here, in a city he calls a national model for...

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PHOTOS: Recap Of Hancock's Appointments For The Week

Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Mayor Michael Hancock, Denver Deputy Mayor, Justice Alex Martinez, Theresa Pena, Denver Manager of Safety, Alex Martinez, Denver Education Compact, Denver News, Gates Foundation, Cary Kennedy, Denver News

It's been a busy week for Mayor Michael Hancock. He's appointed five people to his cabinet and launched Denver Education Compact, a team of education ...

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Gates, In Alliance with Murdoch's News Corp, Builds a New App for Corporate Education Reform?

Leonie Haimson | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Jim Liebman, Wireless Generation, Aris, Gates Foundation, Education, Education News

Watch out for the unholy alliance between Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Joel Klein, ceaselessly devoted to expanding the educational-industrial-technological complex at the cost of real support to teachers and children.

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Gates Foundation Gave $2.5 Billion In 2010, Report Says

AP | By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Gates Charity, Bill Gates Philanthropy, Bill Gates Causes, Bill Gates, Good News, Bill Gates 2.5 Billion, Gates Foundation, Impact News

SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave away $2.5 billion in 2010, but its CEO acknowledged in its annual report released Wednesday that t...

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Gates Foundation To Revolutionize The Toilet For Clean Drinking Water

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Dirk Niebel, Dry Toilets, Clean Drinking Water, Human Waste, Kenya, Africa, Green, Gates Toilets, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Good News, Water Crisis, Sanitation, Gates Foundation, Video, Green News

The newest project from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is set to revolutionize the toilet. Together with the German government, the project ai...

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The Teacher and the American Dream

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Goldman Sachs, Stanford, Education, Teachers, Arne Duncan, Education Reform, American Dream, Randi Weingarten, Gates Foundation, San Francisco, Bay Area, Education News

If most of our thought leaders agree that the teacher is the key and the relationship of the teacher to the students is also key, why we are not doing much more to support teachers?

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When Washington Works

Linda Flanagan | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Disease, David Brooks, Bureaucracy, Foreign Affairs, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Usaid, Sarah Palin, Gates Foundation, Politics News

What most of us don't see, and rarely hear about, is the silent army of civil servants who do the actual work of running the institutions that make up our government.

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The Movement to Kickstart Rural Agriculture

Nicole Skibola | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: One to 1000, Kickstart, The-Prem-Rawat-Foundation, About.me, The-Adventure-Project, Moneymaker Pump, Rural Agriculture, Gates Foundation, Impact News

Founded in 1991 , Kickstart is a social enterprise working to systematically end poverty for thousands of people, by getting tools into the hands of entrepreneurs eager to start profitable businesses.

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The Real Motivation Behind Going Public in Philanthropy

Suzanne Skees | Posted 07.31.2011

For Warren Buffet and me, giving feels really good, because the truth is, we receive more than the supposed recipient. This thing we call "love of humankind," philanthropy, infuses our whole being with love of self.

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The Fundamental Choice

John Thompson | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Rob Reich, Sarah Reckhow, Newsweek, Americas Society, USA Today, Broad Foundation, Greg Toppo, New York Times, Washington Post, Bill Turque, Billionaires Boys Club, Joanne Barkin, The Charlotte Observer, Columbia Journalism School, Gates Foundation, Education News

Data-driven "reform" seems very rational, and not inhumane, from 30,000 feet above our schools and families.

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Seattle's Education Reform Hypocrisy

Sue Peters | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: University of Washington, Seattle Public Schools, Tom Stritikus, Tfa, Bill Gates, Teach for America, Wendy Kopp, Gates Foundation, U-Act, Save Seattle Schools Community Blog, Melissa Westbrook, Education News

On May 11, the University of Washington's College of Education announced it would sponsor Teach for America at its teaching college, providing the missing component to the deal that TFA, Inc.

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Creating Educational Monocultures

John Thompson | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Rob Reich, Americas Society, Columbia Journalism School, Sarah Reckhow, Billionaires Boys Club, Gates Foundation, Joanne Barkan, Education Reform, Education News

"Reformers" still seek to build educational monocultures. They want to destroy the educational "status quo" in order to save our diverse school systems. So, one rushed "silver bullet" after another is funded.

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From Newbies To Veterans, What Do Teachers Want?

John Merrow | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Met Life, Public Education, Education Research, Teaching, Teachers, Education Reform, The Influence of Teachers, Education, Gates Foundation, Education News

In the clamor, the voices of regular classroom teachers are difficult to hear, which is why I am devoting this blog to them. With apologies to Sigmund Freud, "What do teachers want?"

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On World Press Freedom Day, Millions Go Toward Protecting Journalists

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Tim Hetherington, Embedded Journalists, Citizen Journalism, Africa, Nigeria, World Press Freedom Day, Press Freedom, Pierre Omidyar, Journalism, Libya Unrest, Gates Foundation, Media News

Tuesday marks World Press Freedom Day, and this year, the event seems particularly well-timed. Alongside the media-fueled uprisings in the Middle East...

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Mo Ibrahim: Building A Better Africa

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Darfur, Philanthropy, Mo Ibrahim, Sudan, The-New-Carnegies, Genocide, Africa, The New Carnegies, Bono, Gates Foundation, Video, Impact News

Contemporary Africa is the recipient of a fair share of concern and hand-wringing in the West. Problems such as poverty, illness and human rights viol...

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Stop Dumping Our Most Vulnerable Students

John Thompson | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Every Graduates, John Hopkins, Gates Foundation, Robert Balfanz, Education News

We have dumped our most vulnerable children on our most vulnerable schools, turning them into way stations for those kids until they land on the streets.

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